Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-22
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

"A delegation Of Emmett County In
dians has gone to Washington 10 effect a
settlement Of money claims with the Gov
ernment.
The Jackson gas we'll is now down
2,455 feet, and work has been suspended
for the purpose Of overhauling the long
drill rope.
The Adrian College Athletic Associ-
alton will organize football team and q
baseball nine, and arrange for various
athletic sports.
"A vegetable evaporating company,
working under a new process, will go into
business at Jackson. The scheme, aside
from certain processes which are yet held
secret, is simple one, viz: To evaporate
and grind to a powder vegetables Of all
kinds. 1t is claimed that by this process
vegetables can be carried 10 the Arctic re-
gions, and kept fresh there for an indefi-
mite time.
The intercollegiate Alumna Associa-
ton of Northwestern Michigan closed its
sixth annual session in Adrian. Over
forty delegates, representing women
graduates of twelve colleges, were
present. Louise Reede, of Lowell Uni
versity, was elected President The
most important action was the estab-
lishment of q fellowship in Michigan Uni
versiiy for women graduates of colleges.
II pays $3.50 year. The women of the
Alumn@ Association raised the amount,
and il will be ready for use on the opening
of tho university next year.
The Menominee Democrat says: In
Stephenson Township there lives woman
about 40 years of age, who in her young
days got married and became the mother
of two daughters. Her husband served in
the war of the rebellion, and was killed.
Than silA married again. and had fonr
children by her second husband. Trouble
OF some kind arose in the family, and they
were divorced. Some time afterward the
man married his divorced wife's eldest
daughter by her first husband, and they
have several children. The divorced wife
lived under the same roof for some time
with her married daughter, who had taken
her place and assumed charge of the house,
hold, but finally got married to her third
husband. Now, what relation will her
children by her third husband be to the
children of the daughter by her second
husband?
"A short time ago the superintendent at
Washington of the free delivery system of
mails ordered the removal of all mail boxes
that were stationed above the first floor of
buildings. Soon after this order was pro-
py the owners or some or the buildings
affected from the manufacturers of patent
chute, by means of which letters may be
dropped from any floor Of high building
into box stationed at point convenient
of access for the postman. This occurring
so closely after the order of the department
aroused suspicion in certain quarters
there that there was collusion of some kind,
ana some of the proprietors declare they
will have no chute in theirs. One of the
owners of buildings affected said recently:
1T looks very much as though the order
had gone forth for the benefit Of the COM
pany owning this chute, else how could
they have been able to follow up the matter
SO closely. The boxes placed in the second
story of large Office buildings are con-
vcnience for perhaps fifty men in each
building. 1t is an inconvenience only for
one mail carrier, who is paid for doing the
work."
The recent murder of Mrs. Finn ~
her husband, Larry Finn, at Marquette,
proves 10 have been most brutal tragedy.
The rough board shanty, formerly stable,
in which the family was living, bears evil
dence Of the de y crate struggle which took
place there before the woman gave mp her
life. All the dishes were broken, the tea
pot, which she evidently seized as weapon
of defense, is crushed in, while on the
blood covered floor were found the pieces
of the heavy iron tea-kettle with which Finn
killed her. no axe being used, as first re-
ported. Some quarrel arose at the supper
table. Finn seized a butcher knife and
attacked bis wife with ii. In her attempt
to save herself from the blows her hands
were cut and the left hand was pierced by
the knife. She then rushed for the shed
door, leaving the bloody prints of the
wounded hand there, while the knife was
being thrust into her back. He seems to
have dragged her back to the kitchen door,
and 10 have seized the iron tea kettle, filed
with boiling water, crushing in her skull
with il. The boiling water scalded his
right hand and arm horribly, and, crazed
with pain, he pounded her head with the
kettle until he broke it into small pieces,
and had smashed her face and neck into O
hideous mangled mass of blood, flesh and
hair, bearing no resemblance to human
being. Her cries of murder" were heard
by neighbors not 100 feet away, but, as
they say, "rows were so frequent in that
house and yells so common that they did
not feel like interfering" The murderer,
still in his blood covered clothes, with his
face cut and bruised, and his right hlnd
almost cooked, was interviewed He talked
freely, but pro!essed TO know nothing Of
how he came in Jail. He showed no feel
ing, and, though not before told of the
death of his wife, evidently knew it. When
told he was as unconcerned as IL it were a
matter of no interest to him whatever.
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